Online comments reportedly called for Muslims to "(s)tay in your desserts (sic)"
ELMWOOD PARK -- The list of lawmakers calling for the resignation of an Elmwood Park school board member over anti-Muslim comments on her Facebook grew this week.
Assemblyman Gary Schaer, the state's lone Orthodox Jewish member of the state legislature, called for borough Board of Education Trustee Gladys Gryskiewicz to step down immediately.
Posts on Gryskiewicz's Facebook reportedly told Muslims to "(s)tay in your desserts [sic] and follow your religion in your own countries," according to a news release from the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Some of the social media comments also apparently called for ordering Muslims out of the country.
"The French told them to get lost and this is what our President should do," one post said, according to the Community News newspaper. "Go back to your own country; America needs to get rid of people like you."
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"The comments that have repeatedly surfaced online by Ms. Gryskiewicz are wildly inappropriate and complete unbefitting of a member of a public school board or any elected or appointed office holder, for that matter," Schaer said in a statement.
Evan Goldman, an attorney for Gryskiewicz, said she regretted posting the Facebook comments, but would not resign, The Record reported. Gryskiewicz made the posts in January and February. Her attorney confirmed she wrote the comments.
Another message said "we cannot allow Islam to take over," the newspaper's report said.
Two fellow school board members have called for Gryskiewicz to step down over the comments. District officials have also criticized her for the posts.
Gryskiewicz, who took office in January, ran unopposed for seat on the school board.
Assemblyman Benjie E. Wimberly on Monday also called for Gryskiewicz to resign.
"Elected officials cannot pick and choose who they represent," Wimberly said in a statement. "These kinds of remarks should not be tolerated by anyone in public office," he said in a statement.
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